Delivery-feed mechanism for mangles



Sept. 8, 1925. 1,552,496

- J. MURPHY. s R

DELIVERY FEED MECHANISM FOR MANGLES Filed July 5, 1924 I 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 I on 2 A WITNESS Patented Sept. 5%,

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JOHN MURPHY, $3., 0F PASSAIC, NEV] JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 ROBERT MURPHY, OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY.

Application filed July 3,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MURPHY, Sn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Delivery-Feed Mechanism for Mangles, of which the following is a specification. I

In the case of mangles or ironing 1nachines of the type shown in the Thompson and Murphy Patent No. 863,671 the machines have to be served by two attendants, one at one side to deliver to the machine the handkerchiefs or other articles to be ironed and the other at the other side to remove the ironed articles. The principal object of this invention is to provide means to be used in connection with a machine of this type whereby only one attendant will be required, said means delivering the ironed articles within the convenient reach of the attendant who supplies them to the machine for the ironing thereof.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing a mangle with the aforesaid means operatively associated therewith;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of said means;

Fig. 3 shows the ironing roll and a rotary brush and a portion of the main set of endless belts in side elevation;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary front elevation of said brush;

Fig. 5 shows in side elevation the inclined plate over which the articles slide and the grooved roller around which the belts extend; and

Fig. 6 is a rear elevation of what is shown in Fig. 5.

The mangle or ironing machine may be the same as in the said Thompson and Murphy patent, including a frame a, the ironing roll 7) fixed on the shaft 0 journaled in said frame, the shaft (Z in boxes 6 vertically adjustable in the frame, the curved smoothing plate f pivoted on the shaft (Z and coactive with the roll to iron the handker chiefs, the means 9 for varying the pressure of the plate on' said roll, the roll 7L pivotally connected with shaft (Z by the links i and coactive with roll I) to insure evenness of the articles preliminary to the ironing which is efiected by the coaction of roll I) and the smoothing plate, and the platform or shelf j 011 which the handkerchioifi 0 be ironed DELIVERY-FEED MECHANISM roe MANetEs.

1924. Serial No. 723,999.

are placed. It is not material, however, what ironing machine or mangle is employed.

I provide a frame consisting of suitably braced side-frames is which in the present case are here shown attached to the back and top of the frame a. p

In this frame may be suitably supported, as at Z and m, a guiding plate n which is arranged at the back of the mangle in an upright position but pitched forward at an incline so that its upper end, which is preferably bent downward at an incline, as at n, is over the mangle. This plate has projections 11? arranged along its lower edge, as shown in Fig. 6, for a purpose to be explained. i

A set of parallel endless belts 0 coacts with the plate a to conduct the articles upwardly after said system receives the articles. Each belt in the set extends around the cylindrical body of a rotary brush 9 arranged near the ironing roll and also around an elongated pulley 1 arranged above the plate a; the two stretches of each belt also extend around other pulleys s 8 arranged one relatively inward of and the other below said plate, so that the lower portion of each belt extends substantially horizontally and the remaining portion upwardly and forwardly at an incline, such portion of the relatively inner stretch of the belt lying close to the plate and parallel therewith. An adjustable belt-tightening pulley is provided at b. All the pulleys are preferably grooved. The brush 2? has its bristles 19 arranged in annular groups, spaced to receive the belts between them so that it also forms a pulley. The pulleys p, s and 1" receive the belts 0 in their grooves, but the belts ride on the rises of the pulley s, as shown in Fig. '6. The projections 01 of the plate a extend into the grooves of the pulley s, as shown in Fig. 6. The bris tles of brush 3? wipe against the ironing roll.

There is another belt UL This extends around the pulley 1" and also around the grooved'pulley 12 which is arranged suitably forward of the set of belts 0. j

On a shaft 10 near the upper end of the plate is fulcrumed a set of'deflectors m, each preferably individually movable on the shaft. Each deflector has a thin blade m which normally rests against the inclined downwardly bent end a of the plate a; it

also has a counter-balance arm and has a nut 3 screwed thereon so as to form an adjusting weight. r The whole system of belts and: pulleys 1s driven from the shaft ofthe ironing roll:

by a chain and sprocket connection 2 so that the direction of advance 'of the belts isaccording to the arrow in Fig. 1.

Projecting from the plate toward the front of the ironing machine and above the latter is a shelf or platform 2 to receive the articles. This is in convenient reach of the attendant serving the ironing machine from the shelf or platform j. on which.

' the articles are initially placed.

The ironing machine'bei'ng operation, the attendant removes the: handkerchiefs. A; one by one from the shelf j and feeds them to the machine. Thesysteni of belts and pulleys being driven from the ironing roll} I), as each handkerchief, clinging to the fabric surface of said roll, approaches the brush it is wiped from the surface of the rolland fed edge wise onto the horizontal portion of, the inner stretch of the set of belts O and is then carried bysaid inner stretch of the belt set around the pulley s in contact with its high portions or rises. Bythe projecting portions-a 'of the plate a it is then switched away from the pulleys, and made to pass upwardly between said' plate and the inclined portion of said inner stretch of the set of belts. Having traversed, the plate itsupper edge encounters the deflectors m, which by their dependingfportions m direct it downw'ardl'y so; that it 'is delivered onto the shelf .Z-in convenient reach o-fithe attendant at the front of the machine; The pulley Q) prevents any possibilityoflthe handkerchief being dc flected by pressure of the air so as in falling tomiss the shelf andlfail to lodge thereon. Thedeflector's m being freely movable on; their-fulcrum w cause the change in travel of the-handlrerchief's-from the upward to the downward. direction: without puckering: witlrrigid deflectors I find that handkercl'iiefs or other-similar thinarticles frequentlypucker between the deflectors? and cause 1 a The mechanism necessary to convey the handkerchiefs upwardly-and generally, back to the front of'the maichineis greatly simplified by the use of the upwardly and" forwardly inclined plate M Having thus fully described my invention, what Icl'aim as new anddesire to-secure by Letters Patent is:

1' An attachment for a machine for o crating onarticles of sheet material havingmeans to receivetheiarticlesat one; side and deliver them at the other side thereof, comprising a supporting structure, and means insaid structure, including a belt-and-pulley system, for; receiving the delivered articlesfrom the; first-named means: and'then conveyi'ng" them upwardly and over said Inachine and thereupon delivering't'hem thereon at the other side.

2. In a mechanism for conveying handkerchiefs and the like, the combination: ofa supportingstructure, a plate arranged in an inclined plane, a pulley at the upper end of the" plate, anotherpulley ofiset laterally from the lower end of the plate and arranged'approXimatel-y vertically beneath the first pulley, belt guiding-means arranged at. the lower end of'the' plate, and an endless belt extending around the pulleys and between the latter having bends maintained in. its two stretches by said-guiding-means, that stretch of' the belt which adjoins. the plate cooperatingwith; the latter to hold the handkerchiefs between them: and the belt being;

adapted to be advanced to. advance the ar ticles with the mentioned stretch thereof moving toward the first-named. orupper pulley.

3. An attachment for a: machine for "oper' ating on articles of sheet nlaterialhaving a revolvingroll to, receive the articles on its periphery at one side of the machine and convey them to theother side thereof, comprising. a supporting structure, and means-in: said structure, including a. rotary member positioned to revolve against the. periphery of and revolving. in the same. direction. as saidroll when the attachment is in operative position and adapted to remove thearticles edgewise from the roll, for receiving the articles from-the roll and conveying them over said machine and thereupon. delivering them.

4. An attachment for a machine for operating on articlesof sheet material having means to receive thearticlesat one side and deliver them at the other side thereof, comprising a supporting structure, a plate in said structure arranged at said other side of said machine and pitched upward and toward the first-named, side thereof, and means to receive the articlesfrom the ma chine and convey. them over the sameincluding a lower belt-guiding member close tothe machine, an upper belt-guiding member. ad joining the top or the plate and other beltguiding members arranged near the lower end of the plate, and an endless belt to advance the articles upwardly along the surface of'the plate remote from the machine, said belt extendingaround the-first two guid ingmembersand having its two stretches re spectively extending around the, other two guiding members.

' 5; Ina machine ofthe class described,'the combination of means to advance the articlesone after another in a given plane, and means to bend each succeeding article around an acute angle between said plane. and anotherplane; and thereby divert such article into the latter plane including. a deflector fulcrumed on an axissubstantiall'y parallel with both planes. said deflector being-n01 mally held projecting from its fulcrum in the direction of the second plane but being yieldable on its fulcrum under pressure of the article.

6. In a machine of the class described, the combination of means to advance a flexible sheet article in a given plane including a set of parallel spaced belts, and means to divert the article into another plane at an angle to the first plane including deflectors fulcrumed 10 ond plane but being yieldable on its fulcrum 15 under pressure of the article.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JOHN MURPHY, SR. 

